How to start on BPM business process modeling [closed]

Question

I guess the question is too broad, but anyway.

What is the best option to move to BPM as a programmer/developer? Is there any open source project that I can go for and get some experience.

Any specific tool, ideas, link or suggestion would be appreciated.

Thanks, Alex

Answer 1

Business Process Modelling Notation (aka BPM) isn't really a 'technology'. It's a way of documenting the way in which a business works - it's various processes. It's often a part of systems/business analysis and perhaps the simplest way of explaining it is that it's a 'flowchart' of everything a business does.

This Wikipedia article gives a decent overview with links to a few modelling tools available.

Hope that's of help to you.

Answer 2

BPM indeed started as a way of managing and documenting business processes. But Alex is probably looking for a BPMS (S. for "system") that is, software and tools that allow you to not only document but also implement those processes in software.

Among the open source BPM systems, two of the most known ones are:

• jBPM: http://jboss.org/jbpm
• Activiti (started by the founders of jBPM): http://www.activiti.org/

Answer 3

Another open sourced alternative that you should check out is Joget Workflow (www.joget.org). They're fairly young but definitely very promising.

Answer 4

First of all you have to study some important concepts about BPM and BPMN. If you need a BPMS to provide a good way to learn BPM, I suggest you to take look on Bizagi. It is a very powerfull an well documented BPMS tool. It's a piece of cake to automate process using it. But, if you really need to Open Source tool, there are just two good project that you could try: Bonitasoft and Intalio

Answer 5

I would like to add Bonita BPM for you to evaluate:

BonitaBPM Download

It's a good documented open source BPMS project:

Bonita BPM Documentation

According to Gartner

...the only open-source product that meets Gartner's definition of a BPMS

Answer 6

You can have a look at this blog which provides an overview of the main BPMS existing in the market.